Languages, Volume 11, Issue 6
2026 June - 23 articles
Cover Story: This study by Sara Gómez Seibane examines contact-induced morphosyntactic changes in spoken Spanish in the Basque Autonomous Community, where Spanish and Basque have coexisted for centuries. Through the lens of linguistic convergence, the research analyzes three key features: object–verb word order, non-standard gender agreement, and feminine leísmo. Empirical data show that these phenomena result from pattern replication, exhibiting higher frequency, paradigm simplification, and attenuated grammatical constraints compared to non-contact varieties. Driven by a cognitive need to reduce the bilingual processing load, these innovations shifted from individual strategies into stable community features, eventually permeating monolingual Spanish speech. View this paper
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